Fan.



J. W. HAYES.

FAN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1915.

Patented Feb. 29,1916.

POSTCARD /JZ UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTQE.

JESSE W. HAYES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

FAN.

Application filed July 1, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JEss'E VJ. HAYES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel combined post-card and fan, the card being composed of two foldable flaps, and the handle of the fan being mounted between said flaps, and extensible when the card is to be used as a fan, after an folding the flaps.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is an elevation showing the card folded and ready for mailing; Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the device ready for use as a fan, the flaps of the card being unfolded and the fan handle being extended; Fig. 3 is an elevation of the folded handle, the front flap being removed, and Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out the invention, there is provided a sheet which is foldable in the middle to form front and rear flaps 5 and 6, respectively, designed to serve as a post-card the face of the front flap containing the usual lines for the name and address, a space for the postage stamp and a spacefor a written message. The card may be, and preferably is, a souvenir or picture postalcard, the picture or pictures being on the inner face of the front flap and on one or both faces of the rear flap. It is to be understood however, that the pictorial matter on the card is immaterial to the invention, and the latter may be applied with equal facility to any post-card mailing sheet or other card having two flaps.

In order that the card may be used as a fan, it is provided with a handle, the same being located between the flaps and foldable, so that the card may be sent through the mail as an ordinary post-card. The handle referred to is a lazy-tongs structure. Three pairs of lazy-tongs bars are suflicient to ob tain a handle of the necessary length. The intermediate bars 7 are pivotally connected to each other and to one of the flaps, preferably the rear flap 6, as indicated at 8. The bars 9 at one end of the handle are pivotally connected by a headed rivet, stud or similar device 10 whichpasses through a transverse slot 11 in the flap 6, whereby this portion of Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Fgb; 29, 1916,

Serial No. 37,435.

the handle has a sliding connection with the flap 6- The slot also extends across the line 12 on which the flaps fold and takes in a portion of the flap 5. The other end bars 13 of the handle are pivotally connected intermediate their ends, as indicated at 14. The lazy-tongs structure is so dimensioned that when it is folded it lies between the flaps 5 and 6, so that the card can be mailed as any ordinary postcard, the two flaps being fastened together by a clip 15, as shown in Fig. 1. flaps 5 and 6, and extending the handle, the card may be used as a fan, as shown in Fig. 2, the combined area of the unfolded and spread flaps affording a sufficiently large fan area. When the handle is extended, the bars 13 project a sufiicient distance from the flap 6 so that they may be conveniently grasped to hold and operate the fan, and the bars 9 extend across the flap 5 and the joint 12 between the same and the flap 6, the rivet l0 seating in that portion of the slot 11 which is in the flap 5, and as the bars 7 are connected to the flap 6, the two flaps are securely held in unfolded and spread position, and prevented from folding back. When the handle is folded the rivet l0 slides back into that portion of the slot 11 which is in the flap 6, and the entire handle is now clear of the flap 5, as shown in Fig. 3, so that said flap may be folded down on the flap 6.

The card may be ordinary cardboard paper such as is used for post-cards, this material being sufficiently stiff to be used as a fan as hereinbefore described.

I claim:

1. A sheet foldable to form front and rear flaps, and a handle between the flaps, said handle being composed of pivotally connected sections, and capable of extension when the flaps are unfolded, the handle being connected to one of the flaps and extensible at one end therefrom, and at the other end across the other flap and across the joint between the flaps.

2. A sheet foldable to form front and rear flaps, and a handle connected to the inner face of one of the flaps and covered by the other flap, said handle being composed of foldable sections, and when unfolded having one end extending from the flap to which connected and the other end extending across the other flap and across the joint between the flaps. v

3. A sheet foldable to form front and Upon unfolding and spreading the r rear flaps, and a handle connected to the inner face of one of the flaps and composed of foldable sections, said' handle lying between the flaps when folded, and when extended having one end projecting from the flap to which it is connected, and the other end extending across the other flap and across the joint between the flaps, and a sliding connection between the last-mentioned end of the handle and the secondnientioned flap.

4. A sheet foldable to form front and rear flaps, and a handle of the lazy-tongs type connected to one'of the flaps and covered by the other flap when folded, the lastmentioned flap having a transverse slot, and the end bars of the lazy-tongs at one end thereof having a pivotal connection which is slidable in said slot, said end bars extending across the slotted flap when the handle is extended, and the end bars at the other end of the handle being extensible from the first-mentioned flap.

5. A sheet foldable to form front and rear flaps, and a handle of the lazy-tongs Gopies ofthis patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

type connected to one of the flaps and cov-;

ered bythe other fiap when folded, the flaps having slots which cross the joint therebetween, and the end bars of the lazy-tongs at one end thereof having a pivotal connection which is slidable in said slots, said bars extending across the second-mentioned flap when the handle is extended, and the end bars at the other end of the handle being extensible from the'first-mentioned flap.

, JESSE w. HAYES.

lVitnesses I HOWARD D. ADAMS,

E. WALTON BREWINGTON.

Washington, D. C. I 

